The SFA confirmed last night that Gordon Strachan will remain as Scotland manager

And if anything showed how unsuited to office some of the Hampden board members are, it’s their decision to stick their heads in the sand and carry on regardless with Gordon Strachan in charge of the national team.

The former Celtic manager wooed his bosses with an impassioned performance at their meeting yesterday.

He left them utterly convinced he CAN turn Scotland’s fortunes around in the home games we have to come.

After already failing to beat Lithuania at Hampden, Strachan is sure he can take the points needed from England, Slovenia and Slovakia to give ourselves a chance of making a play-off place.

There may be absolutely no evidence at all to back this up, but let’s plough on anyway.

After winning three competitive matches – against the plumbers and joiners of Gibraltar and the minnow Maltese, no less – in the last two years, the proof seems stacked up on the other side.

Scotland's World Cup qualifying results so far

But hey, ‘post-truth’ has just been added to the Oxford English Dictionary as this year’s buzzword so if it’s good enough for Donald Trump and Boris Johnson it’ll do for the bold men in charge of our national game.

Nobody doubts that Strachan is desperate to succeed, that he’s working hard behind the scenes to plot a way to Russia or even that he still believes he can pull off the miracle (and defy nearly two decades of history) to get Scotland into the play-offs.

The rallying cry to the Tartan Army was impressive, even if we’ve heard it all several times before.

But if those three things are the criteria football people now apply to keeping managers in their positions – and that seems to be the message from the SFA – hardly anyone would ever get the sack.